PRIZES and AWARDS

2023 – Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, Canada
2022 – Toronto Arts Foundation’s Newcomer Space Award, Toronto, Canada
2021 – RBC Newcomer Arts Award, Toronto, Canada
2012 – Winner of photography contest « Faites-nous voir le monde », Chicoutimi, Canada

EXHIBITIONS and RESIDENCIES

2023 – Solo exhibition, installation, video, mixed media and drawings, Remote Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 – Public art for Bell box mural project, Toronto, Canada
2022 – Community engaged mural, York Region Arts Council and Sharon Temple, Sharon, Canada
2019 – Solo exhibition, mixed media, North York Central Library, Toronto, Canada
2018 – Solo exhibition, installation, video and mixed media, Mezzanine de l’Hôtel de Ville, Guyancourt, France
2017 – 2018 – Artist in residency, Maison de quartier Théodore-Monod, Guyancourt, France
2016 – Group exhibition, video, Galerie de la Ferme du Mousseau, Élancourt, France
2016 – Group exhibition, mixed media, Maison de quartier Théodore-Monod, Guyancourt, France
2016 – Group exhibition, mixed media, Maison de quartier Théodore-Monod, Guyancourt, France
2015 – Group exhibition, drawing, Maison de quartier Théodore-Monod, Guyancourt, France
2015 – Group exhibition, photography, Mezzanine de l’Hôtel de Ville, Guyancourt, France
2009 – 2014 – Annual Group exhibitions with Photoclub de Vélizy-Villacoublay, photography,
Salle d’exposition Icare, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
2012 – Group exhibition, photography, L’Onde Théâtre-Centre d’art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
2012 – Group exhibition, photography, Mezzanine de l’Hôtel de Ville, Guyancourt, France
2012 – Group exhibition and contest, photography, Chicoutimi, Canada
2011 – Group exhibition, photography, Mezzanine de l’Hôtel de Ville, Guyancourt, France
2010 – Group exhibition, photography, L’Onde Théâtre-Centre d’art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
2008 – Group exhibition, La Galerie l’Œuvre de l’Autre, Chicoutimi, Canada
2007 – Group exhibition, La Galerie l’Œuvre de l’Autre, Chicoutimi, Canada
2003 – Group exhibition, photography, Tehran, Iran
1999 – Group exhibition, plaster moulds, Tehran, Iran

SHORT FILMS

2010 – Short film (2 min 41 sec), « Je suis Iranienne », Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
2008 – 2009 – Documentary short film (42 min), « Sous le voile du Saguenay », Chicoutimi, Canada

EDUCATION

2011 – Master of Arts, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
2007 – First year of Master’s degree in Contemporary art and new medias, Université Paris 8, France
2006 – B.A. Visual Arts, Université Paris 8, France
2000 – B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

CERTIFICATES

2021 – Certificate of completion Artrepreneur Digital Media, York Region Art Council, Canada
2013 – Certificate in web design, AFPA, Créteil, France
2005 – Applied arts certificate, Ecole d’Arts Appliqués de Poitiers, France
2003 – 2004 – Certificates in photography and graphic arts, Tehran University, Iran
2001 – Certificate in Adobe CS, Tehran, Iran